My company has used them before. I thought the same before using them. However I was surprised the level of talent they have. For a super senior dev the context that you need for most projects isn’t as much as you think.
It was a net positive for us. Sped up our developer process given its so hard to hire senior devs right now.
They also have domain experts. So say you are using some tech your team isn’t as familiar in. Great to get some extra eyes of that code to check for security issues, potential computation issues etc.
Also they are much more broader than their company name suggests. Think of them as developers as a service. In this hiring environment it’s much needed.
I'm one of those reviewers, and I agree with you about the talent. Not speaking about myself, but the people I've gotten to know and also the ones I have referred.
Each PR gets two reviewers from pullrequest.com, and we get to see each others' comments. One will catch stuff the other misses, and we usually support each other. It's most fascinating when we disagree on something, which so far has always led to a high-quality discussion between the engineers and the reviewers.
I've been working with them for most of 2021, and I can honestly say I'm impressed with the review comments I have seen. It's been nothing but respectful and professional. As a plus, it's made me a better code reviewer at my day job.
I have certainly done this. PullRequest bought the Moonlight developer gig platform. A lot of full-time developers from Moonlight also took on gigs from PullRequest as they've been using the platform to sell their service. I'd guess most reviewers have other jobs or contracts.
For this new product, no. We use a ton of different technologies to make different parts of our business work. We prefer to focus on solving consumer + smb pain points vs owning the entire stack ourselves.
thanks for the feedback. With this new label product you can package your items yourself and print the labels. You get a final price in app/web before purchase.
With our pickup/packaging business there is no way to give a price up front. Only to give an estimate based on the information we receive. There are too many variables that go into the packaging process (padding, re-arranging items, multiple boxes etc). Something that I would love to be perfect on but its a very hard problem.
We typically split items into multiple boxes for safety or to reduce the cost of the overall shipments. There are some very high oversize fees from the carriers that we try to avoid as much as possible.
If you add a low/high price estimate, I'll probably give it a new try.
You can also probably add a "Is this item fragile" as an option to add less or more padding.
Also I send 3 boxes of the exact same size, it would be great in your app to be able to duplicate items (I had to create one big package by adding the height and weight all together, was too lazy to create 3 different ones, or 2 in a extra large and 1 in a large)
I sent an email to the support and got refund a bit. (all the boxes I shipped were the same size, but I don't know why they were slightly different for all of them in the confirmation email I received ..)
I really wish it was that easy. We have tested a bunch of different things and there is no solution that works 100% of the time. For example.. there is no standard fragile item. A fragile item could be 2" of padding or could be 10" of padding.
The #1 most important thing is that the item arrives safely. #2 is reducing the price our customer pay. We even have machinery to create custom on-demand boxes to .1 of an inch so we don't ship air.
Starting today..For customers that are very price sensitive they can package their items, not pay the $5 pickup and still be able to use our great UX/price comparison technology.
This is exactly the service we are offering to everyone (SF only now, NY in oct) who doesn't use Amazon fulfillment.
The things we are doing behind the scenes to aim for cheapest/fastest service is unbelievable. We will continue to innovate here so business/consumers can focus on what they do best. Shipping is what we do best.
not true (disposable income SF dwellers). Using our service will be cheaper than doing it yourself. As we create custom boxes (reduces weight and size) and choose the best carrier for each shipment we are able to offer a very convenient service for a cheaper price that you could get yourself.
We will need to have a warehouse in every major city we launch in. It is a barrier but I can tell you we have the very best team to launch each city cheaply and at a ridiculous pace. We are launching NYC in oct.
San Francisco and launching in NY early Oct. Signup for NY access on our site now.
We do both. The benefit to not using a 3PL (Amazon logistics or other services) is that we don't ever store your items. We ship from your location on-demand. So our costs are less which we pass on.
We actually see a lot of omni-channel retailers love using our service. They utilize their in-store inventory to ship out as purchases come in.
It was a net positive for us. Sped up our developer process given its so hard to hire senior devs right now.
They also have domain experts. So say you are using some tech your team isn’t as familiar in. Great to get some extra eyes of that code to check for security issues, potential computation issues etc.
Also they are much more broader than their company name suggests. Think of them as developers as a service. In this hiring environment it’s much needed.